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Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Ilex.

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Usage examples (26)
  • Ahead were two shacks shaded by an enormous yaupon holly.
  • A thick understory of yaupon and eastern redcedar occurs in some parts.
  • Slightly higher sandy areas are covered by shrub thicket characterized by wax myrtle, silverling, red cedar, yaupon and Hercules 'club.
  • Among the sand dunes of the extensive "Banks" along the North Carolina coast there grows in great profusion a small bushy tree known as the yaupon.
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